5 things learnt about bowie after his death

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​It has been an entire since our favorite alien Ziggy Stardust left us. Bowie was not just an incredibly gifted artist, he was also a very kind hearted and loving individual, which is exactly why, an entire year after his death, we here at Top Fivers share some things about the icon that were discovered after his passing...

5) ​He did not think music would be his legacy

​Seems rather silly to even think that a maestro would not consider his greatest ever achievements to be his legacy. Francis Whately's documentary, Bowie: The Last Five Years gave fans a rare glimpse of Bowie's sense of humour. He was seen larking around backstage, sticking flashing baubles to his face and attacking his band with a plastic crow. Towards the end of the film, Whately excavated a rare interview, in which the star was asked what he wanted be remembered for."I'd love people to believe," he said, "That I really had great haircuts."Well he was fashion icon just as much as he was a musician so we can get that Bowie.

4) he signed off e-mails with comic nicknames

​Not exactly an eye-opening finding but just another glimpse into the life of the artist extraordinaire. Bowie’s concerts were an environment of such a soothing ambience that all of it could only be attributed to the man of the hour. It was bowie because people there felt a sense of belonging, it was bowie because of whom people felt okay to be different, just ask Lorde, and it was also bowie who made everyone associated to him smile in the truest sense of the word. Producer Brian Eno, who worked on bowie’s legendary Berlin Trilogy in the 70’s said this about the guy, "Over the last few years - with him living in New York and me in London - our connection was by email,""We signed off with invented names: some of his were Mr Showbiz, Milton Keynes, Rhoda Borrocks and the Duke of Ear."I received an email from him seven days ago. It was as funny as always, and as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did. It ended with this sentence: 'Thank you for our good times, Brian. they will never rot'. And it was signed 'Dawn'."I realize now he was saying goodbye."

3) he left his personal assistant $2 Million

​Bowie left an estate of around $100m (£82m) to his wife, Iman, and his two children. But he also gave $2m (£1.6m) to his personal assistant Corinne "Coco" Schwab.It might seem like an extraordinary act of generosity, but Schwab was his closest confidante for 42 years.She started working for Bowie in London in 1973 when she answered an advert in the London Evening Standard asking for a "girl Friday for a busy office". Before long, she was his right-hand woman, looking after every aspect of his life, right down to diet. In an early Rolling Stone profile, she was depicted going to the market to buy the star some extra-rich milk, sighing, "I've got to put more weight on that boy."In later years, Bowie called Schwab his "best friend" and credited her with helping him kick his cocaine addiction in 1970s Berlin."Coco was the one person who told me what a fool I was becoming and she made me snap out of it," he said.